Variety is the watchword of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion. Today's edition includes marches, opera music, and arrangements of English folks songs. Today's edition features a wind-band transcription of Maurice Ravel's “Spanish Rhapsody.” A transcription is an arrangement of an orchestral work for wind band. Many of Ravel's compositions exist in two versions. He usually composed a piano work and then arranged it for orchestra. The “Spanish Rhapsody” is one such composition. But the version you will hear on today's edition is an arrangement for wind band by the talented Japanese composer and arranger Kazuhiro Morita.
Principles of Wind-Band Transcription, a 1921 book by Capt. Arthur A. Clappe, director of the U.S. Army Music School.
See chapter 3 of Evolution of Contemporary College Wind Band Repertoire and Programming in the United States: 1800-2010, by Kenneth G. Bodiford (doctoral dissertation at the University of Alabama, 2012).
- Man of the Hour
Composer: Henry Filmore (1881-1956)
Performer: U.S. Navy Band
Album: Music for Honors and Ceremonies
- Spanish Rhapsody: Prelude a la nuit
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Kazuhiro Morita (1952-2021)
Performer: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Band
Album: New Arrangement Collections, Vol. 6
- Spanish Rhapsody: Malaguena
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Kazuhiro Morita (1952-2021)
Performer: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Band
Album: New Arrangement Collections, Vol. 6
- Spanish Rhapsody: Habanera
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Kazuhiro Morita (1952-2021)
Performer: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Band
Album: New Arrangement Collections, Vol. 6
- Spanish Rhapsody: Feria
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Kazuhiro Morita (1952-2021)
Performer: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Band
Album: New Arrangement Collections, Vol. 6
- Lads and Lassies
Composer: Traditional
Performer: Band of Royal Irish Regiment
Album: Oft in the Stilly Night
- Ulster Division March
Composer: F. M. Marks
Performer: Band of Royal Irish Regiment
Album: Oft in the Stilly Night
- Overture to "Nabucco"
Composer: Guuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), arraged by J. B. Claus
Performer: Newberry''s Victorian Cornet Band
Album: Gilded Age
- Funeral March from Opera "Il Trovatore"
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Performer: Austrian Military Band Karnten
Album: Funeral Marches
- Overture from "Strike Up the Band Overture"
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937), arranged by Teruaki Mastushiro
Performer: Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band
Album: New Arrangement Collections, Vol. 2
